A Sujeitos nómadas a escrever na linha de fuga: Novas Cartas Portuguesas das Três Marias e a poesia de Yu Xiuhua

This paper explores the concept of writing along a “line of flight” by juxtaposing the literary corpora of Novas Cartas Portuguesas by the Three Marias and the poetry of Yu Xiuhua. The “line of flight”, a philosophical concept proposed by Deleuze and Guattari (1987), describes a non-linear existence marked by continual rupture and transformation. Writing along this trajectory entails a mode of literary creation grounded in disobedience and resistance to pre-established order. The authors are approached as “nomadic subjects”, a term developed by Braidotti (2011) based on Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of nomadism, which implies a refusal of fixed identity and a transgression of preconceived boundaries. While resisting essentialist categories, the authors simultaneously assert a female positionality and illuminate the gaps between women situated in diverse social, cultural, and bodily contexts. Novas Cartas Portuguesas constructs a kaleidoscopic female universe rooted in the figure of Mariana Alcoforado, whereas Yu Xiuhua’s poetry complements this with the inscription of a differently-abled body, emphasizing the materiality of embodiment and revealing the often-invisible disparities among women across distinct lived realities.